October 30, 1886

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Features

H. M. S. Benbow

The Statue of Liberty Finishes

Egg Beater

Construction Cars for Track Laying

Washing Machine

Cotton Planter

Barrel Cover

A Simple Method of Insulating Underground and Other Wires

Mushrooms on Shelves

Apparatus for Carrying Vessels over Obstructions

Swinging Centreboard for vessels

A Unique System of Water Works

By E. O. Hovey

Double Parabolic Bridge, Submitted in Competition, for Crossing the Harlem River at 181st Street, City of New York

By Ed Harding

A Boiler Explosion at Charlotte, N. C

Egyptian Petroleum Wells

Heating Water Rapidly

The Aquatic Arena at Paris

Capillary Vacua

By T. O'conor Sloane

Miscellaneous Inventions - October 30, 1886

Engineering Inventions - October 30, 1886

Agricultural Inventions - October 30, 1886

Special - October 30, 1886

To Inventors - October 30, 1886

Departments

Letters

Correspondence - October 30, 1886

Departments

Business and Personal - October 30, 1886

Notes and Queries - October 30, 1886

Index of Inventions - October 30, 1886

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